I have this program called Visual Route that, when you give it a URL or an IP, will visually show you the path your packets take from your IP to their IP, on a map. Including the town name and zip code of each point along the way. I'm wondering if there's a perl program out there (or any other language really) that can do nearly that, and simply return the zip code when given an IP address. That would be very cool. I could give people local weather without them telling me where they are.

That would be neat. I would like to know how you do it if you do. I see a problem with it for AOL users. AOL's central hub for processing is in Virginia. If I am living in Chicago, and the IP address is for AOL (Virginia) how can it tell me my weather since I am using dynamic IP addressing?

That showed Prospect Heights, IL. That's not bad for me, I'm in Wood Dale, IL. But, how many people know that Prospect Heights is a suburb of Chicago and how will the program make that determination. Also, we have users who could get assigned this same IP address who work in Brandon, Florida. How accurate do you think 1008 can get the weather for them? Dennis

Understood. I just wanted to make the point for 1008 that this was why we are all saying that the concept of mapping an IP address to Geographical area for the intent of giving the user current weather information would be an impractical and impossible task.